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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 0741952310198
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Koch Lorber Films
Manufacturer: Koch Lorber Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Koch Lorber Films
Release Date: May 08, 2007
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 41363
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Description:
The latest thriller from French New Wave veteran Claude Chabrol opens with a tongue-in-cheek claim that it does not depict real events, even though it’s timely and provocative account of corporate and political corruption was inspired by a real-life scandal involving a French oil giant and several top-level politicians. The stunning and accomplished Isabelle Huppert (I Heart Huckabees) stars as Jeanne, a tenacious magistrate known as "the piranha" of the judiciary system, who puts her personal life on the back burner to pursue white-collar criminals with their private hands in public pockets. After gaining fame for locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her intoxicating power further than ever and winds up isolated in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.
"The strongest film in years from this great French director [Chabrol]… features a sensational performance by Isabelle Huppert" – Stephen Holden, The New York Times
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Rating:  -
As a fan of Claude Chabrol's darker psychological masterpieces like Les Bonnes Femmes, Les Biches, La Femme Infidele, Le Boucher, La Rupture, Wedding in Blood, Innocents with Dirty Hands, Masques, Cry of the Owl, La Cermonie and Flowers of Evil I have to say that I found Comedy of Power to be insightful as an examination of "power" and the various forms it takes but ultimately lacking some of the punch of Chabrol's darker signature works.
In fact I found Comedy of Power to resemble ... Read More
Rating: -
Few things are as satisfying to hear as "Do you know who I am?" when the person saying it is a self-assured business kingpin and the person he's saying it to is a prosecutor who is about to publicly nail the kingpin's hide to the courthouse door. All those swaggering peer-to-peer dealings -- private exchanges of huge amounts of money, stock manipulation, cheating employees of their retirement funds, obscene executive salaries, back dating options, boardroom favors, living the good life on the shareholders' ... Read More
Rating:  -
Claude Chabrol has never been one of my favorite "New Wave" directors. His dissections of bourgeois hypocrisy can be a little dry. But he does have the tendency of pulling a magic rabbit out of his hat just when you least expect it, and The Comedy of Power is one such rabbit, a film that seems to be part of an unofficial trilogy including Scorsese's The Departed and Eric Rohmer's Triple Agent. What connects all these films is a profound sense of the smoke and mirrors of modern existence, behind which lies ... Read More
Rating:  -
***1/2
In November 2003, after a sensational trial that rocked the Republic of France for four scandal-soaked months, three key executives of that country's ELF oil company were found guilty of massive corporate malfeasance on a scale not seen in Europe since the turbulent days of World War II. The graft, money laundering, and granting of political favors for which these men were convicted extended into the upper reaches of the government as well, so the scandal served a concomitant salutary purpose ... Read More
Rating:  -
This is a film about a case of political and financial corruption and his personal consequences for the private lives of the woman in charge of the investigation and his family. The final result is biased and unbalanced.
We see: in Paris, a female judge played with excessive unexpressivity and dryness by Isabelle Huppert, investigates some tot politicians who have suborned leaders of ex French colonies from African countries. The judicial summary is enormous and requires innumerable hours of investigation to ... Read More
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